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2D Support On Old Intel Hardware: Nothing But Misery

12-17-2012, 04:20 PM

Phoronix: 2D Support On Old Intel Hardware: Nothing But Misery

While Intel finally has stable i830/i845 graphics support for the decade-old Intel hardware that was notorious in recent years on Linux since the GEM/KMS migration, the 2D acceleration support is "nothing but misery" as described by an open-source Intel Linux developer...

While Intel finally has stable i830/i845 graphics support for the decade-old Intel hardware that was notorious in recent years on Linux since the GEM/KMS migration, the 2D acceleration support is "nothing but misery" as described by an open-source Intel Linux developer...

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I gave up on i845 chipsets years ago. I bought a cheap Nvidia card for my customer that had an i845 integrated video device. I then recycled all i845 systems I had that didn't have at least an AGP port. Just not worth the effort anymore.

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You clearly didn't read the article, otherwise you would have got the headline and your abstract right.

Yes, I can't say I'm impressed with the reading comprehension in this post. From the very first paragraph of the linked article, we have:

The introduction of KMS and GEM into the i915 driver broke the i830/i845 chipsets, and a lots of hearts. But fear not! A decade after its introduction, we finally have a driver that is not only stable, but capable of accelerating firefox.

Not quite the same thing as "nothing but misery", which Michael seems to have taken entirely out of context...